James Miffin Linnard Jr.

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James Miffin Linnard Jr.

Birth: 1940, Canada.
Death: July 10, 1881, Pennsylvania.

Father: Stephen Beasley Linnard.
Mother: Emily Kelly Linnard.

Wife: Sara Jane Sounder Linnard, ( 1843-1911 ).

Children: Emily Sounder and Fanny Cecella

Burial: Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia. Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania State Records.

James M. Linnard, Captain, Mustered in August 2, 1861, for 3 years.  Promoted to Captain January 1, 1863,  detached to General Detreauriand's Staff, August 15, 1864.

Chester Bishop, Tenth N. Y. Cavalry.

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New York, State Records.

BISHOP, CHESTER.—Age, 18 years. Enlisted, October 1,1861, at Golden; mustered in as private, Co. B, October 12, 1861, to serve three years; re-enlisted, December 31, 1863; missing in action (probably killed), June 24, 1864, at St. Mary's Church, Va.; never heard from.

New York Tenth Cavalry Regimental History, p. 306-307.

Bishop, Chester. Promoted from private, date not given ; missing in action at St. Mary's Church, Va., June 24, 1864 ; probably killed.

Chester Bishop was born in Aurora, Erie County, N. Y., in the year 1843, being eighteen years old at the time of enlisting.

Previous to his enlistment his life was, as usual in the rural districts, uneventful. The eldest son of a large family, he was early accustomed to hard work. This, however, did not prevent his acquiring a very good common English education. As his father, Dr. F. T. Bishop, was infirm in health, and never in early life accustomed to physical labor, Chester was almost indispensable at home. But those who were his comrades can recall the martial spirit and enthusiasm everywhere prevailing in the fall of 1861.

Lieutenant Woodruff was recruiting for the Tenth New York Cavalry, and came to my father's house to obtain his consent to Chester's enlisting, which was much more readily procured than mother's ; although the patriotic blood of two Revolutionary soldiers, as grandfathers, coursed in her veins, it was only after a long argument, added to Chester's entreaties, that she yielded a reluctant consent to his enrollment. Still she believed, as did many others who had better means of judging, that in a few months the war would close, and her boy be home again. So, equipped with perfect health and a buoyant, cheerful temperament, he left us.

His earlier letters, written in a large, boyish hand, gave us pleasant incidents of camp life, and made kindly mention of "the boys." Then he is in hospital, having taken the  umps. From thence he is removed to convalescent camp near Fort Barnard, where he gets very impatient at the long detention from his Regiment. I give an extract from a letter while detained there : " We were to have a Christmas dinner. There were some New York people here, and they were going to give us a grand dinner. We were ordered to build a table in each street to seat one hundred men. We backed the boards and built the tables;  there were about twenty streets. Now comes the joke of it. We waited patiently for the roast turkeys, but when they reached our street, which was among the last, there was nothing left for a hundred men except five small pies. To-morrow will be New-Year's-day, but nothing is said about a dinner. After his return to the Regiment came long, cheerful, and affectionate letters, only complaining of the long delay in receiving equipment's, and longing to be sent to the front in short, to be doing something.

After the Regiment is engaged in active service, letters are more infrequent, but contained brief though enthusiastic accounts of raids and battles following in quick succession. His history henceforth is the history of his Regiment, now greatly reduced in numbers. In the winter of 1863-'64 came the re-enlistment, followed by a month's furlough. Every home that sent a soldier can remember what that means. There was no railroad to bring the soldiers nearer than Buffalo, and when the stage stopped and " Chet " was not among those that alighted, we were sadly disappointed, until told that he gave up his seat to a comrade who had a wife and child.

Every soldier and soldier's family remembers the glad home-coming. The change m Chester's personal appearance was quite marked. He left us a mere boy, small and youthful- looking for his age ; he returned matured, with the serious, candid manner of a thoughtful man. The month's furlough was one continued ovation. Neighbors and friends vied with each other in doing honor and giving pleasure to the returned soldiers; and I remember so well that, not a little to the regret and annoyance of ourselves, we were obliged to give up some precious days and one or two nights spent with '' the boys," as he termed his comrades.

But the last day came. By this time we all knew what war was, and felt the bitterness of parting ; and, although we repeatedly assured him that we believed he would come back, it was with tearful eyes and sinking hearts that we saw him ride away. And we all felt that he thought his return very doubtful. Soon after his return to the front our father's death occurred. I find among Chester's letters to my mother a very affectionate one, urging her to use whatever money of his she needed for debts, expenses, etc., saying he might never need it.

Not many more letters were received before the news reached us by a letter from John B. Buffum that on the 34th of June, 1864, after an engagement at St. Mary's Church, Va., he was missing, supposed to have been taken prisoner. After this mother received the following letter from Captain Blynn :

Headquarters Tenth N. Y. Cav., July 15, 1864.

Mrs. Bishop : Your letter to John Buffum, making inquiries for your son Chester, came to-day.

I should have written you before, had I not supposed his friends in the company had informed you of his probable fate.

On the 34th of June, Gregg's division of cavalry moved out to St. Mary's Church, and took up a position between the rebels and the road our wagon-train was passing to the James River on. We remained there until afternoon quietly, when, it becoming evident that the rebels were in force on our front, our Regiment, with many others, was dismounted and sent forward on the skirmish-line. The portion under my command pushed into the woods a short distance, until we reached a rail fence, which we hastily pulled down, piling up the rails for breastworks. We remained there for an hour or two quietly, when heavy firing commenced on the right of our line, and in a short time we heard the rebel officers giving commands to their men on our front, and in a second's time we were hotly engaged. After a short but terrific fight the rebels charged our breastworks with a force which our thin skirmish-line could not check. During the fight your son was the next man to me on my right, and I shall never forget with what bravery he fought, how deliberately he aimed his carbine, and how nobly he held his post.

When the rebels charged over our breastworks he was the only man left on my right, and there was but one on my left. When they came through the line they were not over five yards from me, and Chester was still between them and myself. I consider it almost a miracle that J escaped, and I consider it morally certain that your son was captured.

I have no idea that he was either killed or wounded, and I expect in time to welcome him back to the old company, if I am spared from the carnage of this wicked war. It gives me pleasure to be able to speak highly of him as an intelligent and dutiful soldier. Since I have commanded the company (October last) I believe I have not had occasion to reprove him once.

For his good conduct and soldierly bearing I had but recently made him a corporal of the company, which of course was but slight recognition of what he so well deserved. Chet, as we familiarly called him, was a general favorite among us, and none regret his loss more than I.

Anything further in regard to your son that I can do I will cheerfully.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Martin H. Blynn,
Captain Company B, Tenth N. Y. Cav.

As at this time communications had been opened with rebel prisons, every means was used to ascertain where he was, if he really was a prisoner ; but after months of anxious suspense we and some of his comrades came to the conclusion that he was killed in the charge of which Captain Blynn speaks, and that instant death saved him the tortures of a rebel prison. At the organization of the Grand Army post at Colden his comrades honored his memory by naming the post for him— a compliment which was greatly appreciated by his family, and especially pleasing to our dear mother. Anna Bishop Church.

William F. Chapple & "Curly".



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William F. Chapple.

 

Birth 1832-1835.

Death: Unknown.

 

Father: Samuel Chapple.

Mother: Sarah Dismore Chapple.

 

Wife: Rebecca F. Cowley Chapple.

Married August 1, 1875.

 

Children: Non found.

 

Burial: Unknown.

 

Received pension May 17, 1879.

In 1880 was a Police Officer.

 

Authors note. research the above names again before stating as fact.

 

Massachusetts Eight Infantry Co. I., Three Month Service. 

William F. Chapple, Private; Residence Salem; Age 35; Enlisted April 15, 1861; Mustered in April 30, 1861; Mustered out August 1, 1861.

Massachusetts Twenty-Third Infantry Co. F., Three Years Service.

William F. Chapple, Private; Residence Salem; Police Officer; Age 35; Enlisted October 4, 1861; Mustered in December 4, 1861; Mustered out October 13, 1864; Corporal.

Regimental History, p. 31-32.

Morning found us with bright sky and fairly smooth sea, meekly following the Hussar in a similar, though more scattered, column, to that in the bay. Some of the boys found the motion too frisky, but the right wing of the 23rd was too web-footed to suffer long and we thought ourselves pretty fairly settled down to enjoy u sea-life. Towards dark a fresh gale from the southwest arose and so hindered us that it was decided to cast off the hawser.

All hands, but enough to work ship, were ordered below, and, then, as we stood off and on, ensued scenes which, though not without their laughable side, may perhaps best be left to the memories of the participants.  One of these was provided by Commissary Chappie's spaniel as " sick as a dog " in her master's bunk. " Curly," the pet of Company 'F', if not of the regiment, was conspicuous with her red blanket on the march through Boston and New York. Her pups, born on the eve of the battle at Roanoke Island, were in great demand as souvenirs of that affair.

William Whittier Brown & Son.

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William Whittier Brown.

Birth: 1805, Vershire, Orange County, Vermont.
Death: Jan. 6, 1874, Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

Children: William Gerrish Brown (1840 - 1865), Charles Lawrence Brown (1843 - 1863).

Burial: Valley Cemetery, Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

Civil War Record.

WILLIAM WHITTIER BROWN was born in Vershire, VT, in 1805. After attending school in his native state, he attended the academy at Hudson, NY. In 1827 and 1828 he taught school in NY.

At the age of 23 he began studying medicine with John Poole, M.D. at Bradford, VT. He also attended lectures at Hanover, NH and graduated from the NH Medical Institution in 1830. He began his practice in Fremont, NH and in 1835 moved to Chester, NH. In 1843 he went to New York City to further his education. He returned in 1846 and opened a new practice in Manchester, NH.

In 1861 he was appointed Surgeon of the 7th NH Volunteer Infantry. He served until July 22, 1864, when he resigned due to ill health and returned to his medical practice. At the time of his death he was the Post Surgeon for Louis Bell Post #3 GAR. He died on January 6, 1874 at the age of 68.

Extract from the Report of Surgeon WILLIAM W. Brown, 7th New Hampshire Volunteers. St. Augustine, Florida, quarter ending September 30, 1862.

The 7th New Hampshire volunteers sailed from New York about the middle of February, 1862, and arrived at Fort Jfferson, Tortuous, Florida, on the 9th of March. About the middle of June we were ordered to Hilton Head, South Carolina, and encamped at Beaufort. When we arrived the weather was extremely hot and the atmosphere close and unpleasant. At Baufort the sea breezes arc cut off by the outside islands. Our encampment was under a beautiful shade of old live oaks. A gneral hospital had been established under the direction of Surgeon C. H. Crane, U. S. A., Medical Director of the Department of  the South, and thither I was ordered to send all very sick men. Our men were rapidly attacked with bilious remittent fever.

Our first cases were most severe, and typhoid symptoms came on early. Some twenty died during our first month at Beaufort. As  the disease advanced it assumed a milder type. Nearly all the cases were attended with diarrhoea of a serous or bilious caracter, which was not easily controlled. Our treatment was at first an active mercurial cathartic, followed, when a remission ocurred, with qinine in doses of ten grains. For the diarrhoea we gave a turpentine emulsion containing laudanum. We left Baufort September 1st, and arrived at St. Augustine, Florida, on the 3d. Here the health of the regiment has evidently com mnced to improve, though cases of fever similar to those we had at Beaufort still occur.

 

Hospital Steward William G. Brown.

 

William Gerrish Brown, son of Surgeon William W. Brown, was born August 17, 1841, in Chester, N. H. ; when about five years old his father removed to Mancester, N. H., where William was educated in the public shools and afterwards spent two years at Phillips Exeter Aademy, preparing for Dartmouth College. He left the aademy at Exeter to enlist in the Seventh Regiment, in 1861, and was appointed hospital steward, to date from December14, 1861 : he suffered much from impaired halth during the last year of his service, but served out his enlistment and was discharged with the three years men, December 22, 1864. He died on July 11, 1865.

Wyman H. A. Godfrey, New York Dragoons.

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Wyman H. A. Godfrey.

Birth: 1843.
Death: December 1, 1917.

Father: Melborn Godfrey.
Mother: Anan V. Holcomb Godfrey.

Wife : Julia A. waterman Godfrey, ( 1845- 1916 or 1918.
Married August 17, 1869, Colon, St. Joseph, Michigan.

Children: non recorded.

Burial: Likeside Cemetery, Colon, St. Joseph County, Michigan.

Regimental history.

Godfrey, Wyman H. A. Age, 19 years. Enlisted. Aug. 11, 1862, at Attica, N. Y.; mustered in as first sergeant, Co. C, Sept. 3, 1862, to serve three years; mustered in as captain, Jan. 30, 1863; mustered out, June 30, 1865, at Clouds Mills, Va. ; commissioned captain, March 12, 1863, with rank from Jan. 30, 1863, vice Taylor, killed. Quincy, Mich. Though perhaps the youngest company commander, his duties were performed with efficiency..

Lieutenant John T. Magruder

Lt. John T. Magruder.
Just out of West Point.
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This a picture of Brevet Second Lieutenant John T. Magruder, West Point Class of 1857, who was fatally shot about 10 PM, the evening of June 28, 1858 by a resident of Palmetto just west of Marysville, Kansas Territory.  The individual named as the assailant was reported to be a Poor, from Palmetto.

To learn more about his killing and burial and family ties, take this link to my Kansas web site.
http://kansasoakland.blogspot.com/2014/05/lieutenant-john-t-magruder.html

Four Missouri Guerrillas.

I realize There  are not a lot of names here, but there are a lot of researchers looking for names of Confederate guerrillas.  This page is to help those researchers.
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From the Surgeon General Files.

CASE 628. Alfred Piles, Missouri guerilla; admitted November 24, 1864. Acute dysentery. No previous history.  Died, December 1st. Autopsy twenty-four hours after death: The lungs and heart were normal. The intestines were distended with gas. The intestinal mucous membrane was much congested ; in the rectum it was softened and ulcerated. The mesenteric glands were enlarged. Acting Assistant Surgeon J. M. Witherwax.  Burial: Rock Island Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois.

CASE 631. Charles S. Jordan, Missouri guerrilla ; admitted November 20, 186.4. Typhoid pneumonia. Died, December 6th. Autopsy twelve hours after death : The lower lobe of the right lung was hepatized. The right auricle of the heart contained clots. The small intestine was inflamed ; the solitary glands enlarged. The mucous membrane of the colon and rectum was softened and ulcerated. The mesenteric glands were enlarged. Acting Assistant Surgeon J. M. Witherwax  Burial: Unknown.

CASE 633. Private William A. King, company H, Wood s Missouri guerrillas; age 37; admitted November 29, 1864. Acute diarrhoea. This man was conscripted October 14th and deserted ten days afterward. He had diarrhoea at the time, and it persisted. Was detained as a prisoner of war and sent to Rock Island. When admitted he had ten to twenty copious stools daily ; was much emaciated ; tongue brown and dry ; pulse weak and rather slow ; skin dry and husky. He had no appetite, and was inclined to sleep much of the time; when awake seemed moody and dispirited. To take a drachm of sulphate of magnesia with a grain of opium three times a day, and enemata containing acetate of lead. Milk-punch. Died, December 8th. Autopsy four hours after death : Some congestion of the abdominal viscera was found, otherwise all the organs appeared to be normal. Acting Assistant Surgeon J. B. Young.  Burial: Rock Island Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois.

CASE 650. Abraham T. McDaniel, Missouri guerilla ; age 23 ; admitted December 19, 1864. Chronic diarrhoea. This man was conscripted by General Price, deserted and surrendered himself to the United States forces. He was sick with diarrhoea from the time he joined Price s army. When admitted to hospital the disease was in an advanced stage; stools involuntary; tongue brown and dry; pulse feeble, frequent and wiry; dyspnoea; anorexia. The treatment consisted of stimulants, tonics and astringents. Died, December 25th. Autopsy eight hours after death : Both lungs were filled with tubercles. The pericardium contained a quantity of serum. The liver was normal ; the gall-bladder distended with bile. The mesentery was congested, the mesenteric glands enlarged. The mucous membrane of the descending colon and rectum was ulcerated and broken down. Acting Assistant Surgeon J. B. Young.  Burial: Unknown

James M. Latta, Iowa.

James M. Latta.

Birth: Sep. 22, 1834.
Death: Feb. 3, 1920.

Wife: Anna Jane Kendall Latta, ( 1838-1897 ).

Children: James Harry Latta (1869 - 1934), John Charles Latta (1871 - 1923), Walter L Latta (1873 - 1952), Frank F Latta (1875 - 1923).

Burial: Logan Cemetery, Logan, Harrison County, Iowa.

Iowa State Records.

James M. Latta, Private, Age 28, Residence Pottawattamie County, Nativity Pennsylvania, Enlisted in Iowa 29th., Infantry, Company B., November 30, 1862, Mustered in same.  Wounded April 30, 1864, at Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas.  Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Davenport, Iowa.

Surgeon General Report.

CASE 895. Private J. M. Latta, Co. B, 29th Iowa, was wounded at Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas, April 30, 1864, and was reported by Surgeon L. Nicholson, of his regiment, as mortally wounded by a shot perforation of the pelvis. On June 16th, he was admitted to hospital at Camden with "gunshot wound of the pelvis," but there is no record of treatment or disposition. He was mustered out of service on June 17, 1865. Pension Examiner D.  H. O. Linn, of Magnolia, Iowa, reported, August 27, 1870 : " The ball entered the left groin and passed directly backward, making its exit in the left hip. In its course it seems to have partially paralyzed the rectum, so that to effect a passage ho has to resort to a powerful cathartic or enema. It also seems to have injured some of the muscles and nerves in this region, so that walking a short distance produces stiffness of the leg and considerable pain at the knee." J. H. Rice, late assistant surgeon 29th Iowa, in an affidavit made July 18, 1870, testifies that he has frequently been consulted in this case, and describes the wound as follows : "The ball entering near the left groin, passing over the edge of the pubis, and coming out through the left natis. Said wound frequently breaks, and discharges for several weeks in succession." This pensioner was paid to June 4, 1873.

 

Colonel John Morrow Hedrick.

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John Morrow Hedrick.

Birth: Dec. 16, 1832, Scott County, Indiana.
Death: Oct. 3, 1886, Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.

Wife: Matilda Caroline Haines Hedrick.
Married 1853.

Children: Clarence H., dying in infancy; Kate M., Howard L., Harry McPherson, Charles M., and Carita B. Hedrick.

Burial: Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.

Iowa Adjutant General Office.

Company D.

John M. Hedrick, Age 28, residence Ottumwa, Nativity Indiana.  Appointed First Lieutenant November 1, 1861, from Quartermaster.  Mustered in November 1, 1861.  Promoted Captain Company K., February 11, 1862.

Company K.

Wounded and taken prisoner April 6, 1862, Shiloh, Tennessee. Paroled.  Promoted Major January 17, 1862; Lieutenant Colonel April 22, 1863.  Wounded left side July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, Georgia.  Promoted Colonel August 18, 1864.  Brevet Brigadier General United States Army, March 13, 1865.  Mustered out August 11, 1866.

General note.

Colonel John M. Hedrick. was so severely wounded at Atlanta, July 22, 1864, as to disable him for active service, was detailed for special duty as a member of a General Court Martial in Washington D. C., and was retained upon that duty until August 11, 1866.  When he was mustered out of service, he received the Brevet rank of Brigadier General March 13, 1865.  After the close of the war he made a most honorable record in public and private life.
He died at his home in Ottumwa, Iowa.

Surgeon General Report.

CASE 621. Lieutenant Colonel John M. Hedrick, 15th Iowa, was wounded near Atlanta on July 22, 1864, and after Surgeon William H. Gibbon, of his regiment, had applied a primary dressing, he was transferred to the hospital of the Seventeenth Army Corps, thence was admitted into hospital at Chattanooga, where Surgeon J. H. Phillips, U. S. V., records the injury as a flesh wound of the back. Thence this officer was sent to hospital at Louisville on August 10th, where Surgeon A. T. Watson, U. S. V., records "gunshot wound of left forearm and of left hip." He was mustered out of service on August 11, 1866, and was pensioned. On September 4, 1867, Pension Examiner W. S. Orr reports: "A musket ball carried away the left transverse process of the fifth lumbar vertebra, penetrated the os ilium of the same side near its connection with the sacrum, and emerged through the ilium near its anterior superior spinous process. The wound has been followed by extensive exfoliation of the ilium, which has not yet entirely ceased. Disability total." Promoted to a colonelcy, and brevetted a brigadier for gallantry, this officer subsequently regained his strength, and, in 1872, visited Washington, in tolerably robust health.

John Morrow Hedrick Biography.

Publish in 1878.

Picture publish date 1878.

HEDRICK, JOHX MORROW, GEN. is a native of Indiana; born in Rush Co., Dec. 16, 1832; son of Hon. J. W. Hedrick, afterward a resident of Wapello Co.; came to Iowa in 1845 ; his opportunities for education were limited, yet at the age of 17, he had qualified himself for a teacher, and from that time until he was 20, passed his winters in teaching, and his summers on his father's farm ; in 1852, entered a mercantile house as clerk ; soon became a partner, and, before long, proprietor of the house ; with the exception of two years devoted to the real estate business, gave his entire attention to mercantile pursuits until the beginning of the war. In August, 1861, he closed out his business in Ottumwa for the purpose of entering the service, and before the close of that month, had enlisted enough men to entitle him to a First Lieutenant's commission ; received his commission as First Lieutenant of Co. D, 15th I. V. I., Sept. 20, 1861 ; Dec. 23, was made Quartermaster of that regiment.

While in rendezvous at Keokuk, was promoted to the captaincy of Co. K, and with this rank entered the field ; Shiloh was the first battle in which this regiment was engaged, and there Gen. Hedrick distinguished himself; was wounded and taken prisoner ; he, with about two hundred and fifty other officers, was forwarded to Corinth, thence by rail to Memphis ; was more than fifty hours without food, and the first given them was raw bacon and rotten bread ; was six months and seven days in the various prisons of the South ; finally paroled Oct. 18, 1862, and came to his home in Ottumwa ; as soon as he learned of his exchange, rejoined his regiment at La Fayette, Tenn., Feb. 9, 1863, and was immediately promoted to the rank of Major.

On the 22d of the following April, was made Lieutenant Colonel, and with this rank won his chief laurels ; in 1864. while before Atlanta, the Republican State Convention, on account of the fact that Iowa soldiers were allowed to vote, sent him as a delegate to represent the Iowa soldiers at the Baltimore National Convention which renominated Abraham Lincoln, he voting for Lincoln and Johnson. When, after the fall of Atlanta, Col. Belknap was made Brigadier General, Lieut. Col. Hedrick was promoted to the full colonelcy of the 15th I. V. I., his commission dating Aug. 20, 1864; in this battle, he was wellnigh fatally wounded, but was so conspicuous for bravery that he was brevetted Brigadier General ; his injuries were too severe to permit him to again take command in the field ; after many weeks, when partially recovered, was detailed for duty in the War Department at Washington, where he remained from March, 1865, to Sept. 1866.

This military record was taken from Stewart's " Iowa Colonels and Regiments," and from Ingersoll's " Iowa and the Rebellion. When mustered out of service, he was appointed Postmaster of Ottumwa, which office he held until 1870, when he was appointed Supervisor of Internal Revenue for Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Colorado and Dakota, which position he held until 1876 ; during his incumbency of this office, he was especially detailed in charge of the great whisky cases at Milwaukee and Chicago, which required his entire attention for twelve months, and for the management of which he was complimented by Secretary Bristow and the Treasury Department. At his appointment as Postmaster, in 1866, was elected by the stockholders of the Ottumwa Courier Company as its editor, and had charge of the editorial columns until 1869, meantime becoming half-owner of it. In that year.

Maj. Hamilton bought the other half, and they together had charge of it until Jan. 1, 1878, during which time its general business and property value increased three or four fold. In 1868, he was one of the Delegates at Large to the Chicago Convention, which first nominated Gen. Grant, and was one of the Vice Presidents of that Convention, and also one of the committee that went to Washington to notify Grant of his nomination. When Gen. Hedrick retired from the Courier, he gave his time chiefly to looking after the interests of the Cedar Rapids, Sigourney & Ottumwa Railroad Co., of which he is President, and of attending to his real estate matters in Ottumwa.

He is extensively engaged in fruit-growing; is somewhat interested in agriculture, and is President of the Wapello County Agricultural Society. Gen. Hedrick was one of the first to agitate the subject of the improvement of the waterpower in Ottumwa, and when he became connected with the Courier, brought all the influence of his paper to bear toward its accomplishment. He has also always been actively interested in the projection and completion of railroad facilities for Ottumwa. In 1853, he married Matilda Caroline Haines, a native of Illinois ; resident of Wapello Co. since 1844 ; have had six children, the eldest, Clarence H., dying in infancy ; the living are Kate M., Howard L., Charles M., Harry McPherson and Carita B.

Arthurs note.  His Biography was written ten years before his death.  HIs Obit., has some information not in his biography if you would like to read it take this link.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hedrick&GSfn=john&GSmn=m&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=9918639&df=all&

Charles L. Odell, 86th., New York.

Charles L Odell.

Birth: Feb. 27, 1842.
Death: Apr. 19, 1869.

  Burial: Potter Brook Cemetery, Potter Brook, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

New York State Records.

ODELL, CHARLES L.—Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 8, 1861, at Osceola, Pa., to serve three years; mustered in as private, Co. B, 86th N.Y. infantry regiment, September 13, 1861; wounded in action, June 9, 1863, at Beverly Ford, Va.; again, July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa.; captured in action, May 10, 1864, at Spotsylvania, Va.; paroled, no date; mustered out, September 13, 1864.

Surgeon General Report.

 

CASE 270. Private Charles L. Odell, Co. B, 86th New York, aged 22 years, was wounded at Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864, by a conoidal ball. He was taken prisoner, and, on August 24th, was brought, by steamer New York, to Annapolis, and admitted to No. 1 hospital, where the injury was recorded as a "gunshot wound through the abdomen." On August 24th, he was transferred to Camp Parole, whence he was returned to duty, September 30, 1864. On March 19, 1865, he was discharged from the service.

Pension Examiner Ira W. Bellows, Knoxville, Pennsylvania, reports, May 7, 1866: " Ball entered the left side, over the descending colon, came out through the posterior superior spinous process of the left ilium; faecal matter is now discharging from the wound in the back; general emaciation; is unable to leave his room. Disability total ; will probably prove fatal." II. A. Phillips, M. D., of Knoxville, reported that the pensioner died April 19, 1869, at Westfield, Pennsylvania, and states :

"I attended Charles L. Odell for about a month prior to his death ; when I first saw him, I found him suffering from a fistulous opening, communicating with the bowels, with profuse discharge of faecal and purulent matter, resulting from a wound received in the United States service, from which injury he died, very much emaciated, April 19, 1869."

Sylvanus Randall Lathrop, Michigan

Sylvanus Randall Lathrop.

 

Birth: 1842, Michigan.

Death: December 24, 1909.

*Father: Horance N. Lathrop.
*Mother: Lucy A. Stiles Lathrop.

*Wife: Lucy E. Stiles Lathrop.
Married March 22, 1868, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan.

*Children: John H., Paul BEnson, Eugene, Mul Benson Lathrop.
*Note Names so marked need more research before stating as fact.

 

Burial:: Stiles Cemetery, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan.

 

Civil War Record.

Sergeant 1 Michigan Calvary Company-F. Enlisted: August 20, 1861, Discharged: July 24, 1865. Prisoner Of War: August 29, 1862 at Bull Run, Virginia. Reenlisted: December 21, 1863. Promoted To: Sergeant

Surgeon General Report.

CASE 571. Corporal Sylvanus Lathrop, Co. F, 1st Michigan Cavalry, aged 22 years, was wounded at Winchester, September 19, 1864, by a revolver ball, which entered the left iliac region two inches above Poupart's ligament and one and a half inches to the right of the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium, passed backward, and emerged between the body of the fifth lumbar vertebra and the posterior superior spinous process of the ilium. He was removed to the Cavalry Corps /> Hospital, where he remained until October 29th, when he was transferred to the hospital at Cumberland.

Acting Assistant Surgeon S. B. West reports that "a considerable piece of the omentum protruded and sloughed off." His health was good, and the wound was discharging healthy pus and healing. He was returned to duty January 16th, and discharged from service July 24, 1865, and pensioned. Pension Examiner David Clark, of Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, reported, in March, 1870, that "in consequence of the wound the patient suffers from a partial paralysis of the left leg and weakness of the back. The left leg is somewhat smaller than its fellow. The power of rotating the body on the hips is impaired, and the response of the muscles in rising from a sitting posture, or in attempting to lift, is uncertain, causing him to fall if thrown out of a perpendicular line."

Henry Sluder, Indiana

Henry Sluder.

Birth: 1807, Jessamine County, Kentucky.
Death: Aug. 29, 1863, Sullivan County, Indiana.

Husband of Nancy Lockhart, (married November 16, 1826 at Washington, Indiana).

Son of Isaac Sluder and Elizabeth Carter Sluder.

Father of William Sluder, Thomas C.Sluder, Elizabeth Sluder, James Sluder, Isaac Sluder, Robert L. Sluder, John Sluder and Aaron Sluder.

Burial: Cave Hill National Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Service Record.

Henry Sluder, Private, Enlisted October 22, 1862, at Marion County, Indiana, 24th., Light Artillery, Company L., Age 31.  Died  in hospital at Louisville, Kentucky.

Surgeon General Report.

CASE 708. Private Henry Sluder, company I, 24th Indiana battery; age 33; admitted August 20, 1863. Chronic diarrhoea. When admitted the patient was very weak and much emaciated ; pulse 100. He had about ten or twelve evacuations daily. He stated that he had been suffering with diarrhoea for about four months. Has performed no duty for two months. P;. Powdered opium six grains, tannin ten grains; make six powders. Take one every three hours. Whiskey every two hours; milk diet. August 21st: Had ten evacuations during last night. Treatment continued, with the addition of beef-tea. August 22d : Substitute the following : R;. Subnitrate of bismuth half a drachm, powdered opium eight grains ; make eight powders. Take one every three hours. August 25th : Condition continues without much change ; pulse 95. Substitute opium, in grain doses every three or four hours, for the former medicine. August 29th : Sinking. Pulse feeble and over 100, Died during the morning. Autopsy six hours sifter death.

Hayden Ogden, 47th., Indiana.

Hayden Ogden.

Birth: Mar. 10, 1838.
Death: ???. 27, 1872.

Wife's: Charity Warner Ogden-Fites (1842 - 1925). Lucy Ann Loutzenhiser Brown (1846 - 1934).

Children: Charles Benton Ogden (1861 - 1945), George F Ogden (1864 - 1957), Allen W Ogden (1867 - 1951).

Burial: Crescent Heights Cemetery, Pleasant Hill (Pike County), Pike County, Illinois.

Service Record.

Enlisted October 20, 1862, at Wabash, Indiana, age 28.  Discharged September 30, 1863; Disabled.

Surgeon General Report.

CASE 839. Private Hayden Ogden, company I, 47th Indiana volunteers; age 24; admitted to the Marine hospital New Orleans, Louisiana, September 12, 1863, with paralysis of the left lower extremity. He stated that he was attacked with  a severe diarrhoea about ten months since, which lasted fur four mouths, when he lost both sensation and motion in his left thigh and leg; the diarrhoea continued for two months longer, when typhoid fever set in, from the effects of which he is still in a very prostrate condition. Strychnia was tried without benefit, and the patient was discharged the service on surgeons certificate of disability, October 8, 1863. Acting Assistant Surgeon Wm. Cleary.
 

David F. Taylor, 20th., Arkansas, Infantry.

David F. Taylor.

Birth: 1829, Tennessee.
Death: November 20, 1863, Point Lookout, St. Mary's County, Maryland.

Wife: Margaret Taylor.

Children: Martha, Louisa, John, James, and Ambrose Taylor.

Burial: Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery, Scotland, St. Mary's County, Maryland.

Service Record.

Taylor, David F., Private, Enlisted at Washington, Arkansas, March 1, 1862; captured at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi, May 17, 1863; sent to Fort Delaware, September 22, 1863; sent to Point Lookout, Maryland; died in prison, November 20, 1863.

Surgeon General Report.

The next case was forwarded on medical descriptive lists from the HAMMOND HOSPITAL, Point Lookout, Maryland, Surgeon Anthony Heger, U. S. A., in charge. All  the patients were prisoners of war.

CASE 228. Private David F. Taylor, company A, 20th Arkansas; admitted November 7, 1863. Chronic diarrhoea. The patient stated that he was taken sick in July last ; he was very weak. Ordered Stimulants and opium pills. November 18th :The diarrhoea has diminished ; during the day the patient had a chill. The stimulants were continued, and mustard plasters applied to the extremities. November 19th : Had another chill. Treatment continued. November 20th : He had another chill, during which he died. These chills partook rather of the nature of spasms ; during the intervals the patient was able to sit up. Autopsy the same day. 

Charles A. Baxter, 8th., Illinois Cavalry.

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Charles A. Baxter.

Birth: Oct. 29, 1842, Chenango County, New York.
Death: Jun. 26, 1921, Toledo, Tama County, Iowa.

Wife: Mary Jane Smith Baxter (1843 - 1907).

Children: Jessie A., Henry A., Ettie M., Clara A., Cora Elizabeth Baxter Eaton, M. Maude Baxter Nelson.

Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, Tama County, Iowa.

Biography of Charles A. Baxter.

Charles A. Baxter was born in Chenango county, New York, October 29, 1842. His father, Augustus Baxter, was a native of Scotland ; his mother, Hannah Padgett, of New York. His parents were married in Cienango county, where three of their children were born. The father, for many years, was engaged in the mercantile business, and just previous to his death he followed farming. The subject of this sketch enlisted in April, 1861, in the 13tli Illinois Volunteer Infantry for three months, being discharged at the expiration of his time of service.

He again enlisted in the 8th Illinois Cavalry, and participated in  the battles of Ball Bluff, Warrenton Junction, seven days fight before Richmond, Malvern Hill, second battle of Bull Run, South Mountain, Anteitam, Martinsbrug, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded, Spottsylvania Court House, and Coal Harbor, where he left the command and was detailed at General Wilson's headquarters, as head blacksmith, receiving a commission as Second Lieutenant.

He also participated in Wilson's Raid and battle of Stone River, where he was again wounded, lying for five days without food and surrounded by rebels. When he was relieved he went to City Point. He was discharged at Chicago, September 28, 1864.

The following fall he was married to Miss Mary J. Smith, of DeKalb county, Illinois. They have a family of five children; Henry A., Ettie M., Clara A., Cora E., and Jessie A. In the spring of 1865, Mr.  Baxter came to Tama county, where he purchased land and made a home. He has 160 acres valued at $45 per acre, and nine acres of timber land valued at $15 per acre. In politics he is a Republican, and is  a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Arthurs note.  When he enlisted in the 8th., Cavalry, he was 19 years, was 5 feet 8 inches, hair brown, eyes gray and complexion light.

Cornelius V Moore.

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Cornelius V Moore.

Birth: 1829, Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey.
Death: Sep. 2, 1863, Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey.

Parents: Absalom Moore (1800 - 1856), Eliza Ann Pierson Moore (1807 - 1861).

Wife: Mary P Moore (1830 - 1893).

Children: Charles P Moore (1859 - 1914), Virginia Moore (1860 - 1861), Albert S Moore (1862 - 1864).

Sibling: Sarah Moore Akers (1826 - 1861).

Burial: First Presbyterian Church of Ewing Cemetery, Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey.

Civil War record.

 

Although he is recoded as being in all these regiments only the record of the 100th., N. Y., was found.  I have access to the Adjutant General Reports, State Records and Regimental Histories, and his name wasn't stated in any of them.

New York 100th., Infantry.

MOORE, CORNELIUS V.—Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Utica, to serve three years, and mustered in as private, Co. B, September 10, 1863; captured in action, May 16, 1864, at Drewrys Bluff, Va.; paroled, no date; promoted corporal, January 25, 1865; sergeant, March 10, 1865; first sergeant, July 1, 1865; mustered out with company, August 28, 1865, at Richmond, Va.

New York 106th., Infantry.

Corporal.

Same Information as above.

 

Illinois 39th., Infantry.

Sergeant

Not found on any company or regimental rosters.

 

Vermont 11th., Infantry.

Private.

Not found on any company or regimental rosters.

Lieutenant David E. Ainsworth, Michigan.

David E. Ainsworth.

Birth: 1938.
Death: May 12, 1864.
Burial: Unknown at this time.

Battle of Spottsylvania Court House. Virginia.

 

Colonel C. B. Grant, who was acting major that day, writes: "Just before the charge we lay near our battery, which was supported by the Second Michigan, just near the brow of the elevation. Before this we had been further to the left, and had moved, a shell killing four men.  There was an open piece of woods to our right, and another one to our left, containing to the right. While lying there before the order was given to charge, we were severely shelled, and more underbrush, as I remember, mainly of hardwood.

 

It was in these woods that that soldiers of both sides were captured and recaptured several times. When we reached the most advanced position of the charge, I was at the right of the regiment and discovered that we were being shot from the woods at the left. I immediately ran along the line to inform Major Barnes, who was in command of the regiment, I being the acting major.

 

The bullets and shells made such a noise that.it was impossible to hear any command ten feet away. Major Barnes, by motion of his hands, rather than by voice, gave the order to move by the left flank and charge into the woods, which we did.  Our regiment was in an open space between the two woods." So ended the bloody charge of the Twentieth Michigan at Spottsylvania.  Lieutenant David E. Ainsworth fell on the field of battle.

 

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A Memorial Day Salute to Lloyd P. Zimmer

As Memorial Day is only a few days away, I thought it only fitting I should give a Salute to all the service men and women who served are country with honor. "As a free American citizen, I give my thanks to all service men & women all over the world". 
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LLOYD P. ZIMMER

Parents of Veteran: Mr. and Mrs. Earl V, Zimmer; Neoga, Illinois. Sisters; Marjorie E. and Lucille McFall.

Date of Birth: January 6, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois. Spent 9 years in the Mattoon Public Schools, 3 years in Neoga T.H.S. Graduated June. 1940,

Date of Enlistment: November 18, 1940; Mattoon, Illinois. Graduated from Air Corps Radio school August 15, 1941; transferred to the Philippine Islands October 4, 1941; was at Clark Field when the first bombs fell in the war with the Japs.

Parents received two letters, one December 12, 1941 from McKinley Field, near Manila; the other one dated January 25, 1942 while on Bataan; was taken prisoner with the fall of Bataan, was in the Bataan Death March, survived that, only to die in a Prisoner of War camp in Cabanatuan, where 21000 died of starvation, brutality and disease, June 16, 1942. Picture shown was last picture ever taken, about two weeks before war started, near Clark Field, North of Manila. Nothing is known of his military record, his last words were "Wish me luck, what a war, but we will lick them yet." He and thousands of others never knew that it was done, but at what a cost, revenge was taken. They did not die in vain.

Edward P. Capron, Michigan.

Edward P. Capron.

Birth: unknown.
Death: Aug. 14, 1863, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.

Burial: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.

Widows Pension.

Amanda E. Camis Capron.

Michigan State Records.

Edward P. Capron, Private, Residence Grass Lake.  Enlisted in Company F., Twentieth Infantry, August 5, 1862, at Grass Lake, for 3 years, age 33.  Mustered in August 18, 1862.  Died at Cincinnati, Ohio, August 14, 1863.  Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, near Cincinnati, Ohio.

Surgeon General Report.

CASE 593. Private Edward P. Capron, company F, 20th Michigan volunteers; admitted August 11, 1883. Chronic darrhoea. The patient stated that he had suffered from diarrhoea since the 13th of May. He is now pale, ansemic, his tongue dry and coated with brown fur, pulse very feeble, extremities cold. Had a chill this morning. To have a sponge bath ; citrate of iron and quinia ; whiskey-toddy; beef-essence. August 12th: Had involuntary discharges from the bowels this morning. Agust 13th: Became comatose about six o clock this morning; is covered with cold clammy perspiration ; extremities cold; eyes staring ; breathing abdominal. Died, August 14th, at 5 P. M. Autopsy twenty-two hours after death.

George M. Farnham, Michigan.

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George Marion Farnham.


Birth: Dec. 23, 1839.
Death: Jul. 28, 1908.

Wife: Stella Clarinda Keeler Farnham (1859 - 1949).
Married in 1889.

Burial: Hillside Cemetery, Columbus, Columbia County, Wisconsin.

Michigan Civil War State Records.

 

Alfred A. Van Cleve, Michigan.

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Alfred A. Van Cleve.
Also spelled Vancleve

Birth: January 1840, Michigan.
Death: September 1, 1910, Ypsianti City, Washtenaw county, Michigan..

Father: John W. Van Cleve.
Mother: Julia A. Van Cleve.

Wife: Kate S. Van Cleve.

Children: Kat, Antonette and Julia A. Van Cleve.

Burial: Unknown.
The following is from the Michigan State records, although they missed spelled his name its the right person.

 

The following is part of his Biography, to read his full Biography use the link provided below.

Our subject was born January 7, 1840, at Ypsilanti. He had the best educational advantages of the day, attending the seminary and the Normal School, until he was seventeen years of age, when lie went into the mill with his father, where he remained until 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, Twentieth Michigan Infantry. He was mustered in at Jackson as Second Lieutenant and served his company in the battles of Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Jackson, (Miss.), the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Ann, Cold Harbor, and was also present and fought at the siege of Petersburg. In December, 1862, our subject was promoted to a First Lieutenancy, receiving a further promotion as Captain in November, 1863, which rank he held till February, 1865, when he resigned.

After the return of Capt. Van Cleve to the life a civilian, he entered the wholesale paper warehouse of W. H. Van Cleve ( Co., of Detroit, as one of the firm, selling out his interests there in 1867, when he returned to Ypsilanti, working once more in connection with his father in the mill. There he remained for eight years and in 1875 entered the office of the Genera! Passenger Department of the Michigan Central Railroad at Chicago. This position he held for twelve years and again returned here in 1887. Capt. Van Cleve was married in Buffalo to Miss Kate Stevenson, who was born and reared in Buffalo. They have been blessed with five children, two of whom are living, Kate and Julia A. Capt. Van Cleve is a Knight Templar, and is a member of the Episcopal Church in which he is a Vestryman. In politics he is a Democrat,

Alfred A Van Cleve full Biography.

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George E. Norris, Vermont.

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George E. Norris.

Birth: 1846, Vermont.
Death: September 9, 1865.

Mother: Sarah R. Norris.
Father : Eleazer W. Norris.

Sister: Emily Norris.
Brothers: Warren and Frank Norris.

Burial: Meeting House Cemetery, Burke, Vermont.

Civil War.

George E. Norris, Enlisted February 20, 1865, Mustered in same, Age 18, Private, Co. F., 9th., Vermont Infantry.  Died of disease September 9, 1865.

Authors Note.  The caption under the picture read; George F. Norris, Co. K., 5th., Vermont Infantry.  This is in error there was no George F. Norris in any Vermont regiments nor in any Union Volunteer army.

Francis E. Brownell

Private F. E. Brownell.
Library of Congress.
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Francis Edwin Brownell.

Birth: 1840.
Death: Mar. 15, 1894

Burial: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri. Civil War

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He enlisted in Company A, 11th New York Volunteer Infantry in 1861, having been drawn to the colors by the unit's commander, Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, and Ellsworth's passion for Zouave uniforms and drill. His regiment were among the first Union volunteers to arrive in Washington, DC to guard it from anticipated Confederate incursions. When Ellsworth was killed by the proprietor of the Marshall House Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, Brownell tried to deflect the shot, but Ellsworth was hit in the chest. Brownell shot the proprietor in the head, and finished him off with a bayonet. He was soon after commissioned directly into the Regular Army as a 2nd Lieutenant of the 11th United States Infantry. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, and served in that rank until leaving the army two years later. For his bravery in Colonel Ellsworth's defense, he was awarded the Medal of Honor on January 26, 1877, sixteen years after the event.

New York State Records.

BROWNELL, FRANCIS E.—Age, 25 years. Enlisted, April 20, 1861, at New York city; mustered in as corporal, Co. A, May 7, 1861, to serve during the war; promoted sergeant, May 26,1861; mustered out to date, July 4, 1861, to accept commission in regular United States Army; medal of honor.

James "Jim" Patton Brownlow.

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James Patton Brownlow.

Birth: Dec. 17, 1842, Tennessee.
Death: Apr. 26, 1879, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.

James was the son of William Ganaway Brownlow and Elizabeth Ann O'Brien.

James married Belle C. Cliffe, daughter of Dr. Daniel B. Cliffe, on 3 Oct 1865 in Wilson, [county], Tennessee.

Burial: Rest Haven Cemetery, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee.

He was promoted to Full Lt Colonel on 01 Aug 1862, and commissioned an officer in Company C, Tennessee 1st Cavalry Regiment on 01 Apr 1862. Promoted to Full Colonel on 15 Jun 1864. Promoted to Brevet Brig-General on 13 Mar 1865. Mustered out on 11 Apr 1865

From First Tennessee Cavalry Regimental History.

Page 37.  It was while the Fourth Tennessee lay at Camp Morgan and during the sharp and almost continuous picket fighting that Captain Brownlow, of Company C, began to develop such fine soldierly qualities that later on made him famous as a "fighter." The daily picket fighting gave him splendid opportunities and he soon won for himself a brilliant reputation as a brave and determined leader. When the regiment was organized at Flat Lick the office of lieutenant-colonel was left vacant, and up to this position James P. Brownlow, captain of Company C, the youngest captain in the regiment, was promoted.

He was the youngest son of Rev. W. G. Brownlow, of Knoxville, more familiarly known as Parson Brownlow, one of the leading Unionists of East Tennessee and editor and proprietor of Brownlow s Knoxville Whig. Captain Bro \vnlow was just nineteen years old when he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Tennessee Volunteers. He was tall and well proportioned, with keen, penetrating, gray eyes. He was a soldier of fine ability, full of enterprise, energy and courage. He was never heard to say "Go, boys," but always, "Come on, boys !" Agreeable in his manners and accessible to all, he was strictly honorable in all of his dealings with men and the government.

Page 192-3.  Colonel Brownlow was ordered to move his regiment at once and occupy the hill to the right of our battery and to hold it at all hazards. The regiment was moved to the foot of the hill on the gallop. Here Colonel Brownlow dismounted his regiment and, forming it in line of battle, moved rapidly up the steep and rocky hill. The day was exceedingly hot, so by the time the summit was reached we were  almost exhausted. Wheeler moved his troops forward with equal promptness, so the contending forces met at the crest almost at the same moment.

The firing was severe and began at close range, and in a few minutes the hill was completely enveloped in smoke.  Almost at the first fire, Colonel Brownlow, while gallantly leading his men into the very ranks of the enemy, fell severely wounded, and was borne from the field amid a perfect tempest of bullets. A musket-ball passed through both of his legs, producing a very painful wound a wound that almost proved fatal. He was immediately carried to the rear, where his wounds were dressed, but almost bled to death before the surgeons reached him.

William J. Hardee

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William Joseph Hardee.

Birth: Oct. 12, 1815, Camden County, Georgia.
Death: Nov. 6, 1873, Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia.

Wife's: Elizabeth Hennery Dummett Hardee (1820 - 1853). Mary Foreman Lewis Hardee (1838 - 1875).

Children: Willie J. Hardee (____ - 1865), Anna Dummett Hardee Chambliss (1846 - 1936), William Joseph Hardee (1847 - 1865)*. Burial: Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Dallas County, Alabama.

Civil War. Civil

War Confederate Lieutenant General. A West Point graduate in 1838, he was a distinguished US Army officer whom served in the Mexican conflicts and was a tactics instructor and commandant of cadets at West Point. At the start of the Civil War, he resigned his commission as Lieutenant Colonel, to serve in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Appointed first as Colonel of CSA Cavalry, then Brigadier General of the Upper District of Arkansas and promoted Major General commanding the 1st Division, Central Army of Kentucky in December 1861. Known as "Old Reliable", he was promoted Lieutenant General in October 1862 and commanded the Armies of the Department of Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina, until he surrendered his corps on April 26, 1865. After the he became a planter in Alabama.

GENERAL OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT IN THE ARMIES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, 1861-1865.

William J. Habdee. Bom in Savannah, Ga., 1817. Appointed from Georgia, October 7, 1861, to rank from same date; confirmed December 13, 1861; promoted to be Lieutenant General, Provisional Army, October 11, 1862, to rank from October 10, 1862. Died at Wytheville, Va., November 6, 1873.
 

William H. Blodgett, 5th., Minnesota Infantry.

William H. Blodgett.

Birth: unknown
Death: unknown

BLODGETT, William H. Pvt. Co. B, 5th Minnesota Infantry Residence not listed; 21 years old. Enlisted on 10 Feb 1862 at Chatfield, Fillmore Co., Minnesota as a Private. On 10 Feb 1862 he mustered into Co. B, 5th Minnesota Infantry. Wounded 18 Aug 1862 at Redwood, Minnesota. He was discharged on 24 Oct 1863 (place not stated). Other information: Born in Wisconsin. No Dates.

Burial: Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.

Surgeon General Records.

CASE 283. Private W. H. Blodgett, Co. B, 5th Minnesota, aged 18 years, of good habits and strong constitution, was shot by Sioux Indians early in the afternoon of August 18, 1862. After the reception of the wound he walked a distance of twelve miles, to Fort Ridgely, arriving about two o clock A. M., and was admitted into the post hospital. The ball had entered between the first and second floating ribs, eight and one-fourth inches from the linea alba and two inches perpendicularly above the anterior superior spinous process of the left ilium, making an antero-posterior passage through the body six inches long, and escaping near the inferior articular process of the first lumbar vertebra on the same side ; the missile had evidently lacerated the descending colon, near the sigmoid flexure, both in entering and escaping from the body.

During the first two days some fetid gas escaped from the bowels; but after the slough had separated the discharges of faecal matter from both orifices became continuous and very copious, so much so, that the patient had to be put in a separate room and his bedding changed. On the fifth day, a very large number of small living worms (trichorcatns dispar) appeared on each of the wounds from inside the lacerated bowels. These entozoa disappeared after a few fomentations with a dilute solution of chloride of zinc.

The treatment consisted in a strictly liquid and mucilaginous diet, cleanliness, the wearing of a large flannel bandage around the body, an occasional mild cathartic, if needed, and, once, an opiate to stop a slight diarrhoea. The inflammatory symptoms from tin-bowels were light, and lasted but a short time. The wounds were dressed with lint and simple cerate, the edges being occasion ally touched with lunar caustic. As the wounds closed the discharge of faecal matter ceased, and, in four weeks, consisted only of a little mucous matter.

By October 1st, the posterior wound had entirely, the anterior nearly, healed ; the abnormal faecal discharge had entirely ceased. The soldier was able to eat the usual food without any inconvenience, and had regained his strength. Stooping and raising up quickly produced a sensation of heaviness in the abdomen. He was discharged from service October 24, 1862. Acting Assistant Surgeon Alfred Muller reports the case.

A communication from Pension Examiner E. J Kinmsbury, dated June 22, 1867, states that the wound has produced a stricture of the bowels to a certain extent ; also chronic gastro-enteritis and chronic constipation. He is totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor. Blodgett was last paid December 4, 1872, his condition remaining unchanged.

Mathew Murrey Dawson.

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Mathew Murrey Dawson.

Birth: Dec. 4, 1825, Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
Death: Jun. 30, 1864.

Parents: Matthew and Nancy Irwin Dawson.

Wife: Rachel B. Burgers Dawson (1827 - 1860).

Burial: Neshannock Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania State Records.

Math. M. Dawson Lt. Colonel, mustered in August 31, 1861, for 3 years.  Promoted from Captain Company B. to Major, July 12, 1862; to Lt. Colonel, December 30, 1862; died June 30, of wounds received at Petersburg. Va., June 17, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington

Surgeon General Records.

CASE 1251. Lieutenant-Colonel M. M. Dawson, 100th Pennsylvania, aged 38 years, was wounded at Petersburg, June 17, 1864. Surgeon M. K. Hogan, U. S. V., reported from a Ninth Corps hospital : "A shot wound of the left arm and left side of thorax; the ball extracted, and the patient sent to Washington, June 19, 1864" From Armory Square, Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V., reported: "A gunshot wound of the left shoulder, with contusion of the right breast. On June 2?th, secondary
haemorrhage occurred to the amount of thirty ounces. The operation of tying the axillary artery was performed. After ligating the proximal extremity, haemorrhage continued. The distal extremity was then secured by tying the brachial. A few hours after, haemorrhage burst out afresh, and finally the patient died."

Francis A. Barnard, 37th Wisconsin Infantry.

Wisconsin State Records.

 

Francis A. Barnard, Private, enlisted in 37th., Wisconsin infantry, March 28, 1864, promoted to Sergeant, discharged March 8, 1865, due to wounds.

 

37th., Wisconsin Infantry Regimental History.

Francis A. Barnard, Sergeant, wounded in action June 18, 1864, and discharged March 8, 1865.

Surgeon General Records.

CASE 188. Sergeant F. A. Barnard, Co. A, 37th Wisconsin, aged 25 years, was shot through the body by a conoidal musket ball, at Petersburg, June 18, 1864, the missile entering the right hypochondrium and emerging at the left. He was taken to the Ninth Corps Hospital, and treated by restoratives and simple dressings Surgeon M. K. Hogan, U. S. V., reports the case simply as a "gunshot wound of the abdomen. On July 24th, the sergeant was transferred to the Fairfax Seminary Hospital, where Surgeon D. P. Smith, U. S V., reports the injury as a wound of the left lobe of the liver.

The patient was furloughed December 3d, and on January 6, 1865, transferred to Harvey Hospital, Madison, where Surgeon H. Culbertson, U. S. V reported the case as a gunshot perforation of the abdomen, with wound of the stomach." The wound healed, and the patient was discharged March 8, 1865, and pensioned. Examining Surgeon D.. D. T. Hamlin, M. D , of Elk Horn, Wisconsin, reports, November 22, 1865. the wound as " causing painful respiration, with some contraction of lower part of chest on both sides. Disability one-half and permanent."
Pensioned August 22, 1865.

Charles H. Burdick, First Tennessee Cavalry.

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I have very little information on this gentleman.  If you have any information on him I will be glad to hear from you. All information will be posted here, so others can enjoy it as well.

The picture shows him as he appeared after his release from prison in 1864.

In 1862 he was 23 years. received his pension on October 7, 1897.

He was captured at Lost Mountain, Georgia, June 16, 1864.  Escaped twice from prison, but was recaptured each time.  Died since the close of the war, date is unknown.

William W. Hulbert, 4th, Georgia Infantry, Co. D.

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Doles-Cook Brigade History.

West Point Guards Company D.

Page 126.  HULBERT, WILLIAM W. First Corporal, April 26, 1861. Promoted First Sergeant April 28, 1862; Junior Second Lieutenant July 15, 1862; Second and First Lieutenant 1863. Captured at Spottsylvania, Va., while commanding Sharpshooters of the Fourth Georgia Regiment.

Page 83.  Lieutenant William W. Hulbert went into the army as first corporal in the West Point Guards, and his promotions were rapid and well deserved. Captured at Spottsylvania while in command of the sharpshooters of the Fourth Georgia Regiment. He was one of the six hundred Confederate officers who were placed under fire of our batteries on Morris Island, S. C, afterwards transferred to Fort Pulaski, Ga., and paroled December, 1864.

He was a gallant Confederate soldier, always ready to face any danger or undergo hardships of any character. Colonel Doles, who was in command of Ripley's Brigade, speaks in very complimentary terms of Lieutenant Hulbert's gallantry in action during the seven days' battles around Richmond. There is not a more enthusiastic ex-Confederate in the South, and none that love the Lost Cause more dearly. A reunion without his presence would loose much of its interest to his many admiring friends, for he is the prince of good fellows. He is now an influential citizen of the city of Atlanta, Ga., and holds the responsible position of division superintendent with the Southern Express Company.

Authors note.  If you want to learn more about him and his family take this link.
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Joshua Pope Strickland, 4th., Georgia Infantry, Co. A.

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Joshua P. Strickland.

Birth 1833, Georgia.
Death: July 3, 1862, Virginia.

Burial: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond City, Virginia.

History of Doles-Cook Brigade.

STRICKLAND, J. P.  Junior Second Lieutenant April 20, 1801. Promoted Second Lieutenant, December 18, 1801; Captain, April 26, 1802. Killed at Malvern Hill, Va.

Page 84.  Captain J. P. Strickland went to Virginia with his company asjunior second lieutenant; was unanimously elected captain at the expiration of its term of enlistment. He was a model soldier, always at his post ready to respond to every call of duty. In a desperate charge upon Malvern Hill he fell mortally wounded at the head of his company. In his death the regiment lost one of its most promising officers.

Burning of the Creole.

The Creole was on her way from Nachitoches, on Red River, to New Orleans, with a full freight of cotton, and one hundred thousand dollars in specie, consigned to the Exchange Bank of New Orleans. She had, likewise, about one hundred passengers, including several entire families. At an early hour on Monday morning, February 22d, 1841, when the Creole had reached the mouth of Red River, she was discovered to be in flames, which spread with such rapidity as to preclude all hope of saving the vessel.

The engineer and pilot remained at their posts until they were completely surrounded by the flames, and succeeded in running the boat to the nearest bank of the river, before the tiller-ropes were burned off. Unluckily, however, the bank which had been reached was steep and inaccessible ; and the boat, when she struck against it, dislodged a quantity of earth, which fell on her bow, and caused her to bound off from the shore. She then became unmanageable, as the tiller-ropes by this time were consumed. Many of the passengers and crew were rescued by the steamers Baltic and Governor Pratt. The cargo, baggage and specie were all lost. The names of the killed are comprised in the following list :

Killed.  The family of A. B. Church, consisting of two grown daughters, himself and wife, and two colored servants ; D. M. Delmonico, New Jersey; wife of John Abrams, St. Louis ; A. Dutchcr and
daughter, Mobile ; E. Fitch, New Orleans ; A. Barker and wife, Tcnn. ; Miss Snow, of Montgomery, Ala. ; John Floyd, W. Smith, and Edward Young, Miss. ; four colored waiters ; nine firemen, Irish ; a German family, six in number ; besides thirty-one persons who were more or less wounded.